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Rockport (company) The Rockport Company is a Massachusetts-based manufacturer of shoes. Founded in Marlborough, Massachusetts in 1971 by Saul and Bruce Katz, the company continues to produce footwear and operate stores in the United States, and 66 countries around the world.
Rockport (Need for Speed) Rockport is a fictional city in Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005), a racing computer and video game by EA Games, and part of the Need for Speed series. Based on the surrounding natural landscape, Rockport is suggested to be located on the northern end of the East Coast, and the creators claim that Rockport City is a hybrid of two American cities: New York City and Newark, New Jersey .
Rockport School Rockport School is an independent fee-paying preparatory school with a pre-preparatory department situated on the shore of Belfast Lough in Craigavad, a village in County Down, Northern Ireland between Belfast and Bangor. The school was founded in 1904 with four pupils, the first headmaster Geoffrey Bing, an assistant master and a matron.
Rockridge Institute The Rockridge Institute is an American non-profit research and educational think tank located in Berkeley, California. Its stated goal is to articulate the system of American values and ideas to reframe public debate.
Rockridge, Oakland, California Rockridge is a neighborhood and district in Oakland, California. Rockridge is generally defined as the area east of Telegraph Avenue, south of the Berkeley city limits, west of the Oakland hills and north of the intersection of Pleasant Valley Avenue/51st Street and Broadway.
Rocks and Shoals (DS9 episode) "Rocks and Shoals" is the second episode of the sixth season's opening six-episode story arc, beginning shortly after the events of the previous episode. As with the other five episodes of the opening arc, the story alternates between the events on the recaptured Terok Nor and the Federations' attempts to fight the Dominion.
Rocks of Ages (book) Rocks of Ages was short book written by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould on the relationship between science and religion. According to Gould each magistrate occupies a separate realm of human understanding.
Rocks Push The Rocks Push was a notorious gang, which dominated the The Rocks area of Sydney, Australia from 1870s to the end of the 1890s. In its day it was referred to as The Push, a title which has since come to be more widely used for the Sydney Push.
Rocks Riverside Park Rocks Riverside Park is a large, well designed park by the Brisbane River in Seventeen Mile Rocks. The park was opened on December 7, 2003 and features industrial artefacts from its previous use as a Queensland Cement Limited (QCL) quarry.
Rocksichord The rocksichord is an electronic keyboard invented in the 1960s to approximate the sound of the harpsichord. As its name suggests, it was primarily used in rock music (in the 1960s and 1970s), but it has also been used in jazz (by Call Cobbs, Jr.
Rockslide (comics) Rockslide is the codename of Santo Vaccarro, a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Universe, one of the student body in the Xavier Institute and a member of the former Hellions squad therein. Post-M-Day, he was one of only 27 students to retain his powers; he is currently training to become an X-Man.
Rocksource Rocksource is a small technology based E&P oil company listed at the Oslo Stock Exchange (). The company was established as a partnership between Norwegian entrepreneurs, oil industry professionals and academics (from Bergen University).
Rockstar Advanced Game Engine RAGE, short for Rockstar Advanced Game Engine, is a game engine created by video game developer Rockstar Games. Rockstar intends to use it to power their upcoming video games on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.
Rockstar Leeds Rockstar Leeds (formerly Mobius Entertainment) is a video game developer. Rockstar Leeds has primarily published handheld games for Game Boy Color (GBC) and Game Boy Advance (GBA), as well as Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition and the Grand Theft Auto Stories series for the PlayStation Portable (PSP).
Rockstar Lincoln Rockstar Lincoln (formerly Tarantula Studios) is Rockstar Games' dedicated quality assurance and software localisation studio, responsible for game testing and translating games developed by Rockstar. Rockstar Lincoln was previously credited for porting early Grand Theft Auto computer games (Grand Theft Auto, London, 1969 and Grand Theft Auto 2) onto video game consoles.
Rockstar North Rockstar North Limited (formerly DMA Design Limited) is a Scottish developer of computer and video games founded by Dave Jones in Dundee and presently located in Leith Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. The company is a part of Rockstar Games which is owned by Take Two Interactive.
Rockstar San Diego Rockstar San Diego (formerly Angel Studios) is one of the development studios under the Rockstar Games umbrella. They are the developers behind the game Red Dead Revolver as well as the Midnight Club racing series.
Rockstar Toronto Rockstar Toronto (formerly Rockstar Canada) is an in-house game development team for Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive, located in Toronto, Canada. The company was renamed Rockstar Toronto in 2002 after Rockstar Games bought over Vancouver-based Barking Dog Studios and re-named it Rockstar Vancouver.
Rockstar Vancouver Rockstar Vancouver is a video game studio located in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. It was formed when Rockstar Games acquired Barking Dog Studios, the maker of Homeworld: Cataclysm among other major releases.
Rockstar Vienna Rockstar Vienna (formerly neo Software Produktions GmbH) was a Vienna-based developer of computer and video games, and a sub-division of Rockstar Games. Rockstar Vienna was founded on January 4, 1993, joined Take-Two Interactive in February 2001, and was announced to join Rockstar Games during the tenth anniversary of the company in 2003.
Rockstars and Lawnmowers Rock Stars and Lawnmowers is the most recent album from Ali Baba's Tahini, best known as the band Jake Cinninger was in before joining progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee. The album is the first since 1999 to feature the original lineup of Cinninger, Karl Engelmann, and Steve Krojniewski.
Rockstone Rockstone is a town on the right bank of the Essequibo River in the Upper Demerara-Berbice Region of Guyana, located at , altitude 6 Metres (22 feet). Rockstone is approximately 26 km west of Linden and is linked by road.
Rockville Bridge The Rockville Bridge is said to be the longest stone arch railroad viaduct in the world. Completed in 1902 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, it has forty-eight 70-foot spans, for a total length of 3,830 feet (1,165 m).
Rockville Centre Bus Depot The Rockville Centre Bus Depot is located on 50 Banks Avenue in Rockville Centre in Nassau County, New York. Rockville Centre Depot manages compressed natural gas operation (CNG) to fuel the 40 footer Orion V CNG bus fleet.
Rockville High School (Maryland) Rockville High School (RHS) is a comprehensive, four-year high school in Rockville, Maryland, United States. The school opened in 1968 and currently serves 1253 students The school is the second-oldest high school in the Montgomery County Public Schools] system.
Rockville Montgomery Swim Club Rockville Montgomery Swim Club (RMSC) is one of the nations largest swim clubs and is based in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The club practices at the Rockville Municiple Swim Center, Olney Swim Center, Matrin Luther King Jr.
Rockville Union Cemetery Rockville Union Cemetery was established in 1738 by the Anglican Prince George's Parish. It is the oldest burying ground in Rockville, Maryland and is located at 1350 Baltimore Road, adjacent to the Rockville Civic Center.
Rockwell (typeface) Rockwell is a serif typeface belonging to the classification slab serif, or egyptian, where the serifs are unbracketed and similar in weight to the horizontal strokes of the letters. The typeface was designed at the Monotype foundry's in-house design studio in 1934.
Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation is a leading industrial automation company focused to be the most valued global provider of power, control and information solutions. With a focus on automation solutions that help customers meet productivity objectives, the company brings together leading brands in industrial automation, including Dodge mechanical power transmission products, Reliance Electric motors and drives, Allen-Bradley controls and engineered services and Rockwell Software factory management software.
Rockwell Church Rockwell Church is a folk-rock band comprised of Joti Rockwell and Nathan Church Hubbard. According to their website, Joti Rockwell is currently working on his doctorate in Music Theory at the University of Chicago, while Nathan Church Hubbard is working for several music businesses in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Rockwell International Rockwell International was the ultimate incarnation of a series of companies under the sphere of influence of Willard Rockwell, who had made his fortune after the invention and successful launch of a new bearing system for truck axles in 1919.
Rockwell scale The Rockwell scale characterizes the indentation hardness of materials through the depth of penetration of an indenter, loaded on a material sample and compared to the penetration in some reference material. It is one of several definitions of hardness in materials science.
Rockwell XFV-12 The Rockwell XFV-12 was a prototype supersonic United States Navy fighter which combined the Mach 2 speed and AIM-7 Sparrow armament of the F-4 Phantom II in a VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) fighter for the small Sea Control Ship which was under study at the time. On paper, it looked superior to the subsonic Hawker-Siddeley Harrier attack fighter.
Rockwellesque Rockwellesque, or Norman Rockwellesque, is an adjective used chiefly in the United States to describe in an often depreciatory way something characteristic to the work of Norman Rockwell, particularly his idealistic, quaint, sentimentalized portrayals of American life.
Rockwood, Ontario Rockwood is the main urban area in the Township of Guelph/Eramosa in Wellington County, Ontario. A rapidly-growing community of approximately 3,500 people, it is located on Highway #7 between Acton and the City of Guelph.
Rocky (Power Rangers) Rocky DeSantos is a fictional character in the Power Rangers universe. In the second season of the television show Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, he joined the team as the second Red Power Ranger, and remained on the team for several more seasons, becoming Zeo Ranger III during Power Rangers: Zeo and retiring before Power Rangers: Turbo.
Rocky Allen Rocky Allen (born in 1955) is an American talk radio personality and host of the eponymous "Rocky Allen Showgram," which airs from 3-to-7 pm ET on FM station WPLJ, New York. Allen's show, whom he co-hosts with long time on-air partner Blain Ensley, is a mix of celebrity interviews, Top Forty music, and variety talk.
Rocky Barton Rocky Barton (July 28, 1956 - July 12, 2006) was executed by the State of Ohio on July 12, 2006 for the murder of his wife, 43-year-old Kimbirli Jo Barton at their home in Waynesville, Ohio. Convicted on October 10, 2003, Barton spent 2 years, 9 months, 3 days on death row.
Rocky Boiman Rocky Michael Boiman (born January 24, 1980 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American football linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts of the NFL. He played college football for The University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Rocky Creek Bridge (California) Rocky Creek Bridge is a reinforced concrete open-spandrel arch bridge in California, built in 1932. It is located in Monterey County a few miles south of Carmel-by-the-Sea and just north of the more famous Bixby Creek Arch Bridge on the Pacific Coast Highway.
Rocky Dipietro Rocky Dipietro was a Canadian Football League receiver for the Hamilton Tigercats. During his 14 year career as a slotback and wide receiver, DiPietro became the CFL's all-time pass reception leader in 1989 and had a career total of 706 receptions for 9,762 yards and 45 touchdowns.
Rocky Fain Rocky Fain (born November 11, 1979) is a model and actor who appeared on the NBC TV show Average Joe: The Joes Strike Back. Fain was the runner-up on the show, taking second place behind "Average Joe" Nathan Griffin.
Rocky Gap State Park Located just seven miles east of Cumberland, Maryland, Rocky Gap State Park encompasses over 3,000 acres (12 km²) of public land. Rugged mountains surround the park which features 243-acre Lake Habeeb on white sandy beaches.
Rocky Gorge, New Hampshire Rocky Gorge is a waterfall and the name of a scenic and picnic area along the Swift River in the White Mountain National Forest of New Hampshire, United States, next to the Kancamagus Highway. Swimming is not permitted in the falls at Rocky Gorge because of a fatal accident in 1942.
Rocky Gray Rocky Gray (born July 2, 1974 as William Gray) is the drummer for the multi-platinum rock band Evanescence. He has been apart of the Arkansas Metal scene since the early 90's and is probably best known as the lead guitarist for Living Sacrifice and drummer for Evanescence.
Rocky Graziano Rocky Graziano, born Thomas Rocco Barbella in New York City (January 1, 1922–May 22, 1990), was an American boxer. Graziano was considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, often displaying the capacity to take his opponent out with a single punch.
Rocky Hill - Glastonbury Ferry The Rocky Hill - Glastonbury Ferry is a seasonal ferry crossing the Connecticut River between the towns of Glastonbury, Connecticut and Rocky Hill, Connecticut and is part of Route 160. The river crossing has an annual average daily traffic of 400.
Rocky Hill Meeting House The Rocky Hill Meeting House (circa 1785) is a well-preserved New England meeting house located at 4 Portsmouth Road, Amesbury, Massachusetts. It is the best preserved example of an original 18th century meeting house interior in New England, and now a nonprofit museum owned by Historic New England and open to the public several afternoons a year.
Rocky Hill, Connecticut Rocky Hill is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States with a population of 17,966 as of the 2000 census. Rocky Hill was part of Wethersfield, the neighboring town to the north, until it was indepedently incorporated in 1849.
Rocky Horror Shows His Heels Rocky Horror Shows His Heels is the original first draft screenplay treatment for Shock Treatment. It was written in 1978 by original The Rocky Horror Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show author Richard O'Brien.
Rocky IV Rocky IV is the fourth and most successful movie, in terms of box office gross, of the Rocky franchise. Rocky Balboa (played again by Sylvester Stallone), has said he plans to retire from boxing after recovering his title from Clubber Lang in Rocky III.
Rocky Johnson Rocky Johnson (born Wayde Bowles on August 24, 1944) is a former Canadian professional wrestler. Quite popular in his own right in the 1970s and 80s, he is also known for being the father of actor and former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Rocky Juarez Ricardo Rocky Juarez (born April 15, 1980 in Houston, Texas) is a professional Mexican-American boxer. Juarez has a current professional record of 25 wins, 3 losses, no draws, with 18 wins coming way of knockout.
Rocky Marciano Rocco Francis Marchegiano, better known as Rocky Marciano (September 1 1923 – August 31 1969), was an American boxer. Rocky was the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion from September 23, 1952, to November 30, 1956.
Rocky Mount, North Carolina Rocky Mount is a city of the coastal plains of North Carolina. Although it was not formally incorporated until February 28, 1867, the North Carolina community that became the city of Rocky Mount dates from the beginning of the 19th century, and the first post office in the area opened in 1816. The city straddles the county line, with part of it in Nash County and part of it in Edgecombe County. In 1996 the town of Battleboro merged with the city of Rocky Mount. It is the principal city of the Rocky Mount, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of both Edgecombe and Nash counties and Rocky Mount. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 55,893.
Rocky Mountain Arsenal The Rocky Mountain Arsenal was a United States chemical weapons manufacturing center located in the Denver Metropolitan Area in Commerce City, Colorado. The site was operated by the United States Army throughout the later 20th century and was controversial among local residents until its closure.
Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge of the United States located in central Colorado. The facility is on the grounds of the former Rocky Mountain Arsenal (a United States Army weapons manufacturing facility) in Commerce City in the Denver Metropolitan Area, approximately 8 miles (13 km) northeast of downtown Denver.
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) is a College Athletic Conference which operates in the western United States, mostly in Colorado with other members in Nebraska and New Mexico. It participates in the NCAA's Division II.
Rocky Mountain College Rocky Mountain College (informal: Rocky or RMC), located in Billings, Montana, is a private comprehensive college offering more than 25 liberal arts- and professionally-oriented majors. In fall 2006, the college had 898 enrolled students.
Rocky Mountain Cup The Rocky Mountain Cup is a soccer trophy awarded to the fans of the yearly winner of the rivalry between the Real Salt Lake and Colorado Rapids Major League Soccer teams. The Cup is awarded by the Committee of 10 to the team with the most points in games played between the two.
Rocky Mountain District (BHS) The Rocky Mountain District is one of the 16 geographical districts of the Barbershop Harmony Society, an all-male North American singing fraternity. It is composed of male barbershop singers living in the states of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, and New Mexico
Rocky Mountain District (LCMS) The Rocky Mountain District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS). It encompasses the states of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, as well as El Paso County, Texas; the rest of Texas constitutes the Texas District, and one Colorado congregation is in the Wyoming District.
Rocky Mountain EAA Regional Fly-In The Rocky Mountain EAA Regional Fly-In is an annual gathering of aviation enthusiasts held each summer at Front Range Airport near Aurora, Colorado. It is held just prior to the national fly-in held at Oshkosh, typically in mid to late June, and serves the same purpose specific to the Rocky Mountain region.
Rocky Mountain Horse Around the turn of the century, a young horse soon to be called the Rocky Mountain Horse appeared in eastern Kentucky that gave rise to a line of horses prized by North American and European owners. On the farm of Sam Tuttle in Spout Springs Kentucky, there stood astallion "Old Tobe".
Rocky Mountain Institute Rocky Mountain Institute is an organization in the United States dedicated to research, publication, consulting, and lecturing in the general field of sustainability, with a special focus on energy production, use, and conservation. The Institute is based in Snowmass, Colorado.
Rocky Mountain oysters Rocky Mountain oysters, mountain oysters, swinging surloin or prairie oysters are culinary names given to boar or bull testicles. They are usually peeled, coated in flour, pepper and salt, sometimes pounded flat, then deep-fried.
Rocky Mountain Radar Rocky Mountain Radar is a company in El Paso, TX that produces consumer radar detection equipment. In recent testing by various groups, it is found that their "scrambling" or "jamming" ability is not only non-existent, but if it did work would be illegal in all 50 US states.
Rocky Mountain Rocket The Rocky Mountain Rocket was a streamliner passenger train of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad. Rock Island's train numbers 7 and 8 ran from Chicago's LaSalle Street Station to Denver's Union Station and Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Rocky Mountain Showdown The Rocky Mountain Showdown is an annual American football college rivalry between the University of Colorado Buffaloes and the Colorado State University Rams. The winner of the game receives the Centennial Cup.
Rocky Mountain Talent Search The Rocky Mountain Talent Search is a talent search program based at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado for students with high academic achievement. Students are selected from the top 95th percentile from each subject and are administered a number of college-entrance exams to determine their talent compared to others.
Rocky Mountain Trench The Rocky Mountain Trench, also called "the valley of a thousand peaks," is a physiographic feature extending ~1600 km (995 mi) from Flathead Lake, Montana, to the British Columbia-Yukon border. Although some of its topography has been carved into glacial valleys, it is primarily a by-product of faulting.
Rocky Mountaineer Rocky Mountaineer Vacations (RMV) offers and operates numerous sightseeing railway routes in Canada. Founded in 1990, Rocky Mountaineer Vacations offers what are widely considered the most spectacular train trips in the world.
Rocky Mountains The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) from northernmost British Columbia, in Canada, to New Mexico, in the United States.
Rocky Mountains Bristlecone Pine Rocky Mountains Bristlecone Pine (Pinus aristata) is a pine in the bristlecone pine group, native to the United States, where it occurs in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and northern New Mexico, with an isolated population in the San Francisco Peaks in Arizona. It occurs at very high altitudes, from 2500-3700 m, in cold, dry subalpine climate conditions, often at the tree-line, although it also forms extensive closed-canopy stands at somewhat lower elevations.
Rocky Mountains Park Act The Rocky Mountains Park Act was enacted on June 23, 1887 by the Parliament of Canada, establishing Banff National Park which was then known as "Rocky Mountains Park". The act was modelled on the Yellowstone Park Act passed by the United States Congress in 1881.
Rocky Nelson Glenn Richard "Rocky" Nelson (born November 18, 1924 in Portsmouth, Ohio) was a first baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals (1949-51 and 1956), Pittsburgh Pirates (1951 and 1959-61), Chicago White Sox (1951), Brooklyn Dodgers (1952 and 1956) and Cleveland Indians (1954).
Rocky road ice cream Rocky Road is an ice cream flavor, second only to vanilla in popularity in the United States. Though there are variations on the flavor, it is traditionally composed of chocolate ice cream, nuts and marshmallows.
Rocky Raccoon "Rocky Raccoon" is a Beatles song, from double-disc album The Beatles (also known as The White Album). It was written primarily by Paul McCartney who thought of the song while playing guitar for John Lennon and Donovan Leitch in India (where the Beatles had gone on a retreat).
Rocky Rasley Rocky Rasley (born April 27, 1947 in Bakersfield, California) is a former an NFL guard from 1969-1970, 1972-1976. He played college football at Oregon State University, and was selected in the ninth round (216 overall) of the 1969 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions.
Rocky River (Ohio) The Rocky River is a relatively short river that forms the western boundaries of the cities of Cleveland and Lakewood, Ohio. The city of Rocky River, on the west bank bordering Lakewood, is named after the river.
Rocky River (Tennessee) The Rocky River rises on the Cumberland Plateau in Van Buren County, Tennessee near the community of Chalaybeate. Entering a steep cove, it receives some suraface tributary water and more from large springs along its course.
Rocky Roe John Andrew "Rocky" Roe (born August 16 1950 in Detroit, Michigan) is a former umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1979 to 1999 and in both leagues in 2000 and 2001. He officiated in the 1990 and 1999 World Series, as well as the 1984 and 1994 All-Star Games.
Rocky shore Rocky shore is an intertidal area on seacoasts where solid rock predominates. Rocky shores are biologically rich environments, and make the ideal natural laboratory for studying intertidal ecology and other biological processes.
Rocky Schenck Rocky Schenck (born 1960 in Austin, Texas) is an American music video director and photographer. He has worked with such artists as Nick Cave ("Henry Lee"), PJ Harvey, Seal, Joni Mitchell ("How Do You Stop"), The Cramps ("Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" and "Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon)", Alice in Chains ("We Die Young", "Them Bones", "What the Hell Have I", and "Grind"), Annie Lennox, Rod Stewart ("If We Fall in Love Tonight"), and Van Halen ("Humans Being" and "Fire in the Hole"), among others.
Rocky Steps The Rocky Steps are the front steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. They are well known for the role they played in a famous scene in the film Rocky, and also in four of its five sequels (with the exception of Rocky IV).
Rocky Sullivan's Rocky Sullivan's is a New York City Irish style pub opened in 1996 by musician Chris Byrne (Seanchai, Black 47 and Paddy-A-Go-Go) and journalist Patrick Farrelly (HBO's Left of the Dial, Irish Voice, Michael Moore's TV Nation). Entertainment includes comedy on Tuesdays, authors' readings on Wednesdays, a pub quiz on Thursdays, live music on Fridays and Saturdays and the occasional traditional seisun.
Rocky the Flying Squirrel Rocket J. Squirrel, usually called by the nickname "Rocky", is the name of the flying squirrel protagonist of the 1959-1964 animated television series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show (both shows often referred to collectively as Rocky and Bullwinkle), produced by Jay Ward.
Rocky Valley The Rocky Valley is a small yet spectacular canyon carved by the Trevillet River in Trethevy, North Cornwall, around one mile east of Tintagel. At their highest point the slate canyon walls tower over seventy feet above the river below.
Rococo The Rococo style of art emerged in France in the early 18th century as a continuation of the Baroque style. In contrast to the heavier themes and darker colors of the Baroque, the Rococo style was characterized by an opulence, grace, playfulness, and lightness.
Rococo (club) Rococo club is an R&B nightclub in Leicester Square, central London, England. It is home to several funky house and R&B nights including the VIP guestlist R&B, Bashment and Hip Hop Cinnamon Fridays nights.
Rocori High School shooting The Rocori High School shooting was a school shooting that occurred in Cold Spring, Minnesota, United States on September 24, 2003. The shooting was perpetrated by then 15-year-old John Jason McLaughlin who murdered classmates Seth Bartell, 15, and Aaron Rollins, 17.
Rocuronium Rocuronium is an aminosteroid non-depolarizing (that is, it does not cause initial stimulation of muscles before weakening them) neuromuscular blocker or muscle relaxant used in modern anaesthesia, to facilitate endotracheal intubation and to provide skeletal muscle relaxation during surgery or mechanical ventilation.
Rod (cryptozoology) Rods, a rather new entry in the field of Cryptozoology, are creatures said to flit about in the air at such a high speed as to not be seen by the naked eye. Rods appear to be observational artifacts produced by rapidly flying animals.
Rod (god) Rod, sometimes referred to simply as god (Div, Diy; in the Veda Slovena Diy or Dia), is probably the most ancient deity in the Slavic pantheon. It is likely that several other gods, most notably Svarog, were initially epithets or incarnations of Rod.
Rod Abernethy Rod Abernethy is an award winning American video game music composer and founder of Rednote Audio. His work in video games began with a collaboration with veteran film composer Elmer Bernstein on the scores for the video game “Wild Wild West, The Steel Assassin”.
Rod Barnes Rod Barnes (born January 8, 1966) is a men's basketball coach, and is currently an assistant coach at the University of Oklahoma. Barnes' most recent head coaching job was at the University of Mississippi of NCAA Division I's Southeastern Conference.
Rod Barry Rod Barry is a pornographic actor (porn star) from the United States who has appeared in more 100 pornographic films since he entered the industry in 1996. While most of his films have been gay pornographic films, he has also made bisexual and heterosexual videos.
Rod Beattie Rod Beattie is a Canadian actor who is best known for performing the Wingfield Series of plays by Dan Needles. In these plays Beattie plays all the characters, employing changes in voice or facial expression to denote which character he is playing.
Rod Beck Rodney Roy Beck (born August 3 1968 in Burbank, California) is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the San Francisco Giants (1991-97), Chicago Cubs (1998-99), Boston Red Sox (1999-2001) and San Diego Padres (2003-2004). He batted and threw right handed.
Rod Bernard In the 1950s and early 1960s singer and songwriter Rod Bernard (born 1940) helped to pioneer the musical genre known as "swamp pop", which combined New Orleans-style rhythm and blues, country and western, and Cajun and black Creole music. He is generally considered one of the foremost musicians of this south Louisiana-east Texas idiom, along with such notables as Bobby Charles, Johnnie Allan, Tommy McLain, and Warren Storm.
Rockport (Need for Speed) Rockport is a fictional city in Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005), a racing computer and video game by EA Games, and part of the Need for Speed series. Based on the surrounding natural landscape, Rockport is suggested to be located on the northern end of the East Coast, and the creators claim that Rockport City is a hybrid of two American cities: New York City and Newark, New Jersey .
Rockport School Rockport School is an independent fee-paying preparatory school with a pre-preparatory department situated on the shore of Belfast Lough in Craigavad, a village in County Down, Northern Ireland between Belfast and Bangor. The school was founded in 1904 with four pupils, the first headmaster Geoffrey Bing, an assistant master and a matron.
Rockridge Institute The Rockridge Institute is an American non-profit research and educational think tank located in Berkeley, California. Its stated goal is to articulate the system of American values and ideas to reframe public debate.
Rockridge, Oakland, California Rockridge is a neighborhood and district in Oakland, California. Rockridge is generally defined as the area east of Telegraph Avenue, south of the Berkeley city limits, west of the Oakland hills and north of the intersection of Pleasant Valley Avenue/51st Street and Broadway.
Rocks and Shoals (DS9 episode) "Rocks and Shoals" is the second episode of the sixth season's opening six-episode story arc, beginning shortly after the events of the previous episode. As with the other five episodes of the opening arc, the story alternates between the events on the recaptured Terok Nor and the Federations' attempts to fight the Dominion.
Rocks of Ages (book) Rocks of Ages was short book written by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould on the relationship between science and religion. According to Gould each magistrate occupies a separate realm of human understanding.
Rocks Push The Rocks Push was a notorious gang, which dominated the The Rocks area of Sydney, Australia from 1870s to the end of the 1890s. In its day it was referred to as The Push, a title which has since come to be more widely used for the Sydney Push.
Rocks Riverside Park Rocks Riverside Park is a large, well designed park by the Brisbane River in Seventeen Mile Rocks. The park was opened on December 7, 2003 and features industrial artefacts from its previous use as a Queensland Cement Limited (QCL) quarry.
Rocksichord The rocksichord is an electronic keyboard invented in the 1960s to approximate the sound of the harpsichord. As its name suggests, it was primarily used in rock music (in the 1960s and 1970s), but it has also been used in jazz (by Call Cobbs, Jr.
Rockslide (comics) Rockslide is the codename of Santo Vaccarro, a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Universe, one of the student body in the Xavier Institute and a member of the former Hellions squad therein. Post-M-Day, he was one of only 27 students to retain his powers; he is currently training to become an X-Man.
Rocksource Rocksource is a small technology based E&P oil company listed at the Oslo Stock Exchange (). The company was established as a partnership between Norwegian entrepreneurs, oil industry professionals and academics (from Bergen University).
Rockstar Advanced Game Engine RAGE, short for Rockstar Advanced Game Engine, is a game engine created by video game developer Rockstar Games. Rockstar intends to use it to power their upcoming video games on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.
Rockstar Leeds Rockstar Leeds (formerly Mobius Entertainment) is a video game developer. Rockstar Leeds has primarily published handheld games for Game Boy Color (GBC) and Game Boy Advance (GBA), as well as Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition and the Grand Theft Auto Stories series for the PlayStation Portable (PSP).
Rockstar Lincoln Rockstar Lincoln (formerly Tarantula Studios) is Rockstar Games' dedicated quality assurance and software localisation studio, responsible for game testing and translating games developed by Rockstar. Rockstar Lincoln was previously credited for porting early Grand Theft Auto computer games (Grand Theft Auto, London, 1969 and Grand Theft Auto 2) onto video game consoles.
Rockstar North Rockstar North Limited (formerly DMA Design Limited) is a Scottish developer of computer and video games founded by Dave Jones in Dundee and presently located in Leith Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. The company is a part of Rockstar Games which is owned by Take Two Interactive.
Rockstar San Diego Rockstar San Diego (formerly Angel Studios) is one of the development studios under the Rockstar Games umbrella. They are the developers behind the game Red Dead Revolver as well as the Midnight Club racing series.
Rockstar Toronto Rockstar Toronto (formerly Rockstar Canada) is an in-house game development team for Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive, located in Toronto, Canada. The company was renamed Rockstar Toronto in 2002 after Rockstar Games bought over Vancouver-based Barking Dog Studios and re-named it Rockstar Vancouver.
Rockstar Vancouver Rockstar Vancouver is a video game studio located in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. It was formed when Rockstar Games acquired Barking Dog Studios, the maker of Homeworld: Cataclysm among other major releases.
Rockstar Vienna Rockstar Vienna (formerly neo Software Produktions GmbH) was a Vienna-based developer of computer and video games, and a sub-division of Rockstar Games. Rockstar Vienna was founded on January 4, 1993, joined Take-Two Interactive in February 2001, and was announced to join Rockstar Games during the tenth anniversary of the company in 2003.
Rockstars and Lawnmowers Rock Stars and Lawnmowers is the most recent album from Ali Baba's Tahini, best known as the band Jake Cinninger was in before joining progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee. The album is the first since 1999 to feature the original lineup of Cinninger, Karl Engelmann, and Steve Krojniewski.
Rockstone Rockstone is a town on the right bank of the Essequibo River in the Upper Demerara-Berbice Region of Guyana, located at , altitude 6 Metres (22 feet). Rockstone is approximately 26 km west of Linden and is linked by road.
Rockville Bridge The Rockville Bridge is said to be the longest stone arch railroad viaduct in the world. Completed in 1902 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, it has forty-eight 70-foot spans, for a total length of 3,830 feet (1,165 m).
Rockville Centre Bus Depot The Rockville Centre Bus Depot is located on 50 Banks Avenue in Rockville Centre in Nassau County, New York. Rockville Centre Depot manages compressed natural gas operation (CNG) to fuel the 40 footer Orion V CNG bus fleet.
Rockville High School (Maryland) Rockville High School (RHS) is a comprehensive, four-year high school in Rockville, Maryland, United States. The school opened in 1968 and currently serves 1253 students The school is the second-oldest high school in the Montgomery County Public Schools] system.
Rockville Montgomery Swim Club Rockville Montgomery Swim Club (RMSC) is one of the nations largest swim clubs and is based in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The club practices at the Rockville Municiple Swim Center, Olney Swim Center, Matrin Luther King Jr.
Rockville Union Cemetery Rockville Union Cemetery was established in 1738 by the Anglican Prince George's Parish. It is the oldest burying ground in Rockville, Maryland and is located at 1350 Baltimore Road, adjacent to the Rockville Civic Center.
Rockwell (typeface) Rockwell is a serif typeface belonging to the classification slab serif, or egyptian, where the serifs are unbracketed and similar in weight to the horizontal strokes of the letters. The typeface was designed at the Monotype foundry's in-house design studio in 1934.
Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation is a leading industrial automation company focused to be the most valued global provider of power, control and information solutions. With a focus on automation solutions that help customers meet productivity objectives, the company brings together leading brands in industrial automation, including Dodge mechanical power transmission products, Reliance Electric motors and drives, Allen-Bradley controls and engineered services and Rockwell Software factory management software.
Rockwell Church Rockwell Church is a folk-rock band comprised of Joti Rockwell and Nathan Church Hubbard. According to their website, Joti Rockwell is currently working on his doctorate in Music Theory at the University of Chicago, while Nathan Church Hubbard is working for several music businesses in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Rockwell International Rockwell International was the ultimate incarnation of a series of companies under the sphere of influence of Willard Rockwell, who had made his fortune after the invention and successful launch of a new bearing system for truck axles in 1919.
Rockwell scale The Rockwell scale characterizes the indentation hardness of materials through the depth of penetration of an indenter, loaded on a material sample and compared to the penetration in some reference material. It is one of several definitions of hardness in materials science.
Rockwell XFV-12 The Rockwell XFV-12 was a prototype supersonic United States Navy fighter which combined the Mach 2 speed and AIM-7 Sparrow armament of the F-4 Phantom II in a VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) fighter for the small Sea Control Ship which was under study at the time. On paper, it looked superior to the subsonic Hawker-Siddeley Harrier attack fighter.
Rockwellesque Rockwellesque, or Norman Rockwellesque, is an adjective used chiefly in the United States to describe in an often depreciatory way something characteristic to the work of Norman Rockwell, particularly his idealistic, quaint, sentimentalized portrayals of American life.
Rockwood, Ontario Rockwood is the main urban area in the Township of Guelph/Eramosa in Wellington County, Ontario. A rapidly-growing community of approximately 3,500 people, it is located on Highway #7 between Acton and the City of Guelph.
Rocky (Power Rangers) Rocky DeSantos is a fictional character in the Power Rangers universe. In the second season of the television show Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, he joined the team as the second Red Power Ranger, and remained on the team for several more seasons, becoming Zeo Ranger III during Power Rangers: Zeo and retiring before Power Rangers: Turbo.
Rocky Allen Rocky Allen (born in 1955) is an American talk radio personality and host of the eponymous "Rocky Allen Showgram," which airs from 3-to-7 pm ET on FM station WPLJ, New York. Allen's show, whom he co-hosts with long time on-air partner Blain Ensley, is a mix of celebrity interviews, Top Forty music, and variety talk.
Rocky Barton Rocky Barton (July 28, 1956 - July 12, 2006) was executed by the State of Ohio on July 12, 2006 for the murder of his wife, 43-year-old Kimbirli Jo Barton at their home in Waynesville, Ohio. Convicted on October 10, 2003, Barton spent 2 years, 9 months, 3 days on death row.
Rocky Boiman Rocky Michael Boiman (born January 24, 1980 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American football linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts of the NFL. He played college football for The University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Rocky Creek Bridge (California) Rocky Creek Bridge is a reinforced concrete open-spandrel arch bridge in California, built in 1932. It is located in Monterey County a few miles south of Carmel-by-the-Sea and just north of the more famous Bixby Creek Arch Bridge on the Pacific Coast Highway.
Rocky Dipietro Rocky Dipietro was a Canadian Football League receiver for the Hamilton Tigercats. During his 14 year career as a slotback and wide receiver, DiPietro became the CFL's all-time pass reception leader in 1989 and had a career total of 706 receptions for 9,762 yards and 45 touchdowns.
Rocky Fain Rocky Fain (born November 11, 1979) is a model and actor who appeared on the NBC TV show Average Joe: The Joes Strike Back. Fain was the runner-up on the show, taking second place behind "Average Joe" Nathan Griffin.
Rocky Gap State Park Located just seven miles east of Cumberland, Maryland, Rocky Gap State Park encompasses over 3,000 acres (12 km²) of public land. Rugged mountains surround the park which features 243-acre Lake Habeeb on white sandy beaches.
Rocky Gorge, New Hampshire Rocky Gorge is a waterfall and the name of a scenic and picnic area along the Swift River in the White Mountain National Forest of New Hampshire, United States, next to the Kancamagus Highway. Swimming is not permitted in the falls at Rocky Gorge because of a fatal accident in 1942.
Rocky Gray Rocky Gray (born July 2, 1974 as William Gray) is the drummer for the multi-platinum rock band Evanescence. He has been apart of the Arkansas Metal scene since the early 90's and is probably best known as the lead guitarist for Living Sacrifice and drummer for Evanescence.
Rocky Graziano Rocky Graziano, born Thomas Rocco Barbella in New York City (January 1, 1922–May 22, 1990), was an American boxer. Graziano was considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, often displaying the capacity to take his opponent out with a single punch.
Rocky Hill - Glastonbury Ferry The Rocky Hill - Glastonbury Ferry is a seasonal ferry crossing the Connecticut River between the towns of Glastonbury, Connecticut and Rocky Hill, Connecticut and is part of Route 160. The river crossing has an annual average daily traffic of 400.
Rocky Hill Meeting House The Rocky Hill Meeting House (circa 1785) is a well-preserved New England meeting house located at 4 Portsmouth Road, Amesbury, Massachusetts. It is the best preserved example of an original 18th century meeting house interior in New England, and now a nonprofit museum owned by Historic New England and open to the public several afternoons a year.
Rocky Hill, Connecticut Rocky Hill is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States with a population of 17,966 as of the 2000 census. Rocky Hill was part of Wethersfield, the neighboring town to the north, until it was indepedently incorporated in 1849.
Rocky Horror Shows His Heels Rocky Horror Shows His Heels is the original first draft screenplay treatment for Shock Treatment. It was written in 1978 by original The Rocky Horror Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show author Richard O'Brien.
Rocky IV Rocky IV is the fourth and most successful movie, in terms of box office gross, of the Rocky franchise. Rocky Balboa (played again by Sylvester Stallone), has said he plans to retire from boxing after recovering his title from Clubber Lang in Rocky III.
Rocky Johnson Rocky Johnson (born Wayde Bowles on August 24, 1944) is a former Canadian professional wrestler. Quite popular in his own right in the 1970s and 80s, he is also known for being the father of actor and former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Rocky Juarez Ricardo Rocky Juarez (born April 15, 1980 in Houston, Texas) is a professional Mexican-American boxer. Juarez has a current professional record of 25 wins, 3 losses, no draws, with 18 wins coming way of knockout.
Rocky Marciano Rocco Francis Marchegiano, better known as Rocky Marciano (September 1 1923 – August 31 1969), was an American boxer. Rocky was the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion from September 23, 1952, to November 30, 1956.
Rocky Mount, North Carolina Rocky Mount is a city of the coastal plains of North Carolina. Although it was not formally incorporated until February 28, 1867, the North Carolina community that became the city of Rocky Mount dates from the beginning of the 19th century, and the first post office in the area opened in 1816. The city straddles the county line, with part of it in Nash County and part of it in Edgecombe County. In 1996 the town of Battleboro merged with the city of Rocky Mount. It is the principal city of the Rocky Mount, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of both Edgecombe and Nash counties and Rocky Mount. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 55,893.
Rocky Mountain Arsenal The Rocky Mountain Arsenal was a United States chemical weapons manufacturing center located in the Denver Metropolitan Area in Commerce City, Colorado. The site was operated by the United States Army throughout the later 20th century and was controversial among local residents until its closure.
Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge of the United States located in central Colorado. The facility is on the grounds of the former Rocky Mountain Arsenal (a United States Army weapons manufacturing facility) in Commerce City in the Denver Metropolitan Area, approximately 8 miles (13 km) northeast of downtown Denver.
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) is a College Athletic Conference which operates in the western United States, mostly in Colorado with other members in Nebraska and New Mexico. It participates in the NCAA's Division II.
Rocky Mountain College Rocky Mountain College (informal: Rocky or RMC), located in Billings, Montana, is a private comprehensive college offering more than 25 liberal arts- and professionally-oriented majors. In fall 2006, the college had 898 enrolled students.
Rocky Mountain Cup The Rocky Mountain Cup is a soccer trophy awarded to the fans of the yearly winner of the rivalry between the Real Salt Lake and Colorado Rapids Major League Soccer teams. The Cup is awarded by the Committee of 10 to the team with the most points in games played between the two.
Rocky Mountain District (BHS) The Rocky Mountain District is one of the 16 geographical districts of the Barbershop Harmony Society, an all-male North American singing fraternity. It is composed of male barbershop singers living in the states of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, and New Mexico
Rocky Mountain District (LCMS) The Rocky Mountain District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS). It encompasses the states of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, as well as El Paso County, Texas; the rest of Texas constitutes the Texas District, and one Colorado congregation is in the Wyoming District.
Rocky Mountain EAA Regional Fly-In The Rocky Mountain EAA Regional Fly-In is an annual gathering of aviation enthusiasts held each summer at Front Range Airport near Aurora, Colorado. It is held just prior to the national fly-in held at Oshkosh, typically in mid to late June, and serves the same purpose specific to the Rocky Mountain region.
Rocky Mountain Horse Around the turn of the century, a young horse soon to be called the Rocky Mountain Horse appeared in eastern Kentucky that gave rise to a line of horses prized by North American and European owners. On the farm of Sam Tuttle in Spout Springs Kentucky, there stood astallion "Old Tobe".
Rocky Mountain Institute Rocky Mountain Institute is an organization in the United States dedicated to research, publication, consulting, and lecturing in the general field of sustainability, with a special focus on energy production, use, and conservation. The Institute is based in Snowmass, Colorado.
Rocky Mountain oysters Rocky Mountain oysters, mountain oysters, swinging surloin or prairie oysters are culinary names given to boar or bull testicles. They are usually peeled, coated in flour, pepper and salt, sometimes pounded flat, then deep-fried.
Rocky Mountain Radar Rocky Mountain Radar is a company in El Paso, TX that produces consumer radar detection equipment. In recent testing by various groups, it is found that their "scrambling" or "jamming" ability is not only non-existent, but if it did work would be illegal in all 50 US states.
Rocky Mountain Rocket The Rocky Mountain Rocket was a streamliner passenger train of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad. Rock Island's train numbers 7 and 8 ran from Chicago's LaSalle Street Station to Denver's Union Station and Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Rocky Mountain Showdown The Rocky Mountain Showdown is an annual American football college rivalry between the University of Colorado Buffaloes and the Colorado State University Rams. The winner of the game receives the Centennial Cup.
Rocky Mountain Talent Search The Rocky Mountain Talent Search is a talent search program based at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado for students with high academic achievement. Students are selected from the top 95th percentile from each subject and are administered a number of college-entrance exams to determine their talent compared to others.
Rocky Mountain Trench The Rocky Mountain Trench, also called "the valley of a thousand peaks," is a physiographic feature extending ~1600 km (995 mi) from Flathead Lake, Montana, to the British Columbia-Yukon border. Although some of its topography has been carved into glacial valleys, it is primarily a by-product of faulting.
Rocky Mountaineer Rocky Mountaineer Vacations (RMV) offers and operates numerous sightseeing railway routes in Canada. Founded in 1990, Rocky Mountaineer Vacations offers what are widely considered the most spectacular train trips in the world.
Rocky Mountains The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) from northernmost British Columbia, in Canada, to New Mexico, in the United States.
Rocky Mountains Bristlecone Pine Rocky Mountains Bristlecone Pine (Pinus aristata) is a pine in the bristlecone pine group, native to the United States, where it occurs in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and northern New Mexico, with an isolated population in the San Francisco Peaks in Arizona. It occurs at very high altitudes, from 2500-3700 m, in cold, dry subalpine climate conditions, often at the tree-line, although it also forms extensive closed-canopy stands at somewhat lower elevations.
Rocky Mountains Park Act The Rocky Mountains Park Act was enacted on June 23, 1887 by the Parliament of Canada, establishing Banff National Park which was then known as "Rocky Mountains Park". The act was modelled on the Yellowstone Park Act passed by the United States Congress in 1881.
Rocky Nelson Glenn Richard "Rocky" Nelson (born November 18, 1924 in Portsmouth, Ohio) was a first baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals (1949-51 and 1956), Pittsburgh Pirates (1951 and 1959-61), Chicago White Sox (1951), Brooklyn Dodgers (1952 and 1956) and Cleveland Indians (1954).
Rocky road ice cream Rocky Road is an ice cream flavor, second only to vanilla in popularity in the United States. Though there are variations on the flavor, it is traditionally composed of chocolate ice cream, nuts and marshmallows.
Rocky Raccoon "Rocky Raccoon" is a Beatles song, from double-disc album The Beatles (also known as The White Album). It was written primarily by Paul McCartney who thought of the song while playing guitar for John Lennon and Donovan Leitch in India (where the Beatles had gone on a retreat).
Rocky Rasley Rocky Rasley (born April 27, 1947 in Bakersfield, California) is a former an NFL guard from 1969-1970, 1972-1976. He played college football at Oregon State University, and was selected in the ninth round (216 overall) of the 1969 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions.
Rocky River (Ohio) The Rocky River is a relatively short river that forms the western boundaries of the cities of Cleveland and Lakewood, Ohio. The city of Rocky River, on the west bank bordering Lakewood, is named after the river.
Rocky River (Tennessee) The Rocky River rises on the Cumberland Plateau in Van Buren County, Tennessee near the community of Chalaybeate. Entering a steep cove, it receives some suraface tributary water and more from large springs along its course.
Rocky Roe John Andrew "Rocky" Roe (born August 16 1950 in Detroit, Michigan) is a former umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1979 to 1999 and in both leagues in 2000 and 2001. He officiated in the 1990 and 1999 World Series, as well as the 1984 and 1994 All-Star Games.
Rocky shore Rocky shore is an intertidal area on seacoasts where solid rock predominates. Rocky shores are biologically rich environments, and make the ideal natural laboratory for studying intertidal ecology and other biological processes.
Rocky Schenck Rocky Schenck (born 1960 in Austin, Texas) is an American music video director and photographer. He has worked with such artists as Nick Cave ("Henry Lee"), PJ Harvey, Seal, Joni Mitchell ("How Do You Stop"), The Cramps ("Bikini Girls with Machine Guns" and "Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon)", Alice in Chains ("We Die Young", "Them Bones", "What the Hell Have I", and "Grind"), Annie Lennox, Rod Stewart ("If We Fall in Love Tonight"), and Van Halen ("Humans Being" and "Fire in the Hole"), among others.
Rocky Steps The Rocky Steps are the front steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. They are well known for the role they played in a famous scene in the film Rocky, and also in four of its five sequels (with the exception of Rocky IV).
Rocky Sullivan's Rocky Sullivan's is a New York City Irish style pub opened in 1996 by musician Chris Byrne (Seanchai, Black 47 and Paddy-A-Go-Go) and journalist Patrick Farrelly (HBO's Left of the Dial, Irish Voice, Michael Moore's TV Nation). Entertainment includes comedy on Tuesdays, authors' readings on Wednesdays, a pub quiz on Thursdays, live music on Fridays and Saturdays and the occasional traditional seisun.
Rocky the Flying Squirrel Rocket J. Squirrel, usually called by the nickname "Rocky", is the name of the flying squirrel protagonist of the 1959-1964 animated television series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show (both shows often referred to collectively as Rocky and Bullwinkle), produced by Jay Ward.
Rocky Valley The Rocky Valley is a small yet spectacular canyon carved by the Trevillet River in Trethevy, North Cornwall, around one mile east of Tintagel. At their highest point the slate canyon walls tower over seventy feet above the river below.
Rococo The Rococo style of art emerged in France in the early 18th century as a continuation of the Baroque style. In contrast to the heavier themes and darker colors of the Baroque, the Rococo style was characterized by an opulence, grace, playfulness, and lightness.
Rococo (club) Rococo club is an R&B nightclub in Leicester Square, central London, England. It is home to several funky house and R&B nights including the VIP guestlist R&B, Bashment and Hip Hop Cinnamon Fridays nights.
Rocori High School shooting The Rocori High School shooting was a school shooting that occurred in Cold Spring, Minnesota, United States on September 24, 2003. The shooting was perpetrated by then 15-year-old John Jason McLaughlin who murdered classmates Seth Bartell, 15, and Aaron Rollins, 17.
Rocuronium Rocuronium is an aminosteroid non-depolarizing (that is, it does not cause initial stimulation of muscles before weakening them) neuromuscular blocker or muscle relaxant used in modern anaesthesia, to facilitate endotracheal intubation and to provide skeletal muscle relaxation during surgery or mechanical ventilation.
Rod (cryptozoology) Rods, a rather new entry in the field of Cryptozoology, are creatures said to flit about in the air at such a high speed as to not be seen by the naked eye. Rods appear to be observational artifacts produced by rapidly flying animals.
Rod (god) Rod, sometimes referred to simply as god (Div, Diy; in the Veda Slovena Diy or Dia), is probably the most ancient deity in the Slavic pantheon. It is likely that several other gods, most notably Svarog, were initially epithets or incarnations of Rod.
Rod Abernethy Rod Abernethy is an award winning American video game music composer and founder of Rednote Audio. His work in video games began with a collaboration with veteran film composer Elmer Bernstein on the scores for the video game “Wild Wild West, The Steel Assassin”.
Rod Barnes Rod Barnes (born January 8, 1966) is a men's basketball coach, and is currently an assistant coach at the University of Oklahoma. Barnes' most recent head coaching job was at the University of Mississippi of NCAA Division I's Southeastern Conference.
Rod Barry Rod Barry is a pornographic actor (porn star) from the United States who has appeared in more 100 pornographic films since he entered the industry in 1996. While most of his films have been gay pornographic films, he has also made bisexual and heterosexual videos.
Rod Beattie Rod Beattie is a Canadian actor who is best known for performing the Wingfield Series of plays by Dan Needles. In these plays Beattie plays all the characters, employing changes in voice or facial expression to denote which character he is playing.
Rod Beck Rodney Roy Beck (born August 3 1968 in Burbank, California) is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the San Francisco Giants (1991-97), Chicago Cubs (1998-99), Boston Red Sox (1999-2001) and San Diego Padres (2003-2004). He batted and threw right handed.
Rod Bernard In the 1950s and early 1960s singer and songwriter Rod Bernard (born 1940) helped to pioneer the musical genre known as "swamp pop", which combined New Orleans-style rhythm and blues, country and western, and Cajun and black Creole music. He is generally considered one of the foremost musicians of this south Louisiana-east Texas idiom, along with such notables as Bobby Charles, Johnnie Allan, Tommy McLain, and Warren Storm.
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